Building Reliable AI Apps and Agents with Azure SQL Database
Learn how to build production-ready AI applications and agents powered by Azure SQL.
In this hands-on lab, you'll prepare Azure SQL Database as a resilient RAG data source, implement hybrid search that combines vector and keyword retrieval, and integrate your retrieval layer with applications and AI agents. Leave with practical patterns you can apply immediately to build reliable, scalable AI solutions.
Jerry Nixon is a Microsoft SQL Server Principal Product Manager on the Developer Experiences team, championing Data API builder. With more than two decades of experience, Jerry is an engineer at heart. He teaches Computer Science at university and speaks at events worldwide. Over the years, he has trained thousands of developers, but today, he focuses on software simplicity, intuitive tooling, and excellence in data-driven apps. You'll find him talking about quantum computing, design patterns, machine learning, and—on occasion—SQL Server, the finest of them all. He lives in Colorado, and while most of his days revolve around Outlook, Visual Studio, and online Docs, what he enjoys most is teaching his three daughters Star Trek character backstories and episode plots.